After using my friends spare machine at christmas, I was introduced into the world of “metal detecting” which is walking round a field digging holes in the rain and only finding pennies. I was hooked! I was so exited pulling out Victoria pennies and old tractor bits, with the slight possibility of treasure. The machine I was using was good but my friend was pulling out so much more, a silver here, a Roman there. “Ok” I said “what machine have you got? ”..... “Its a Minelab mate.” After every video there is on metal detecting (youtube), I though sod it, I”m going for a Minelab. If I enjoy finding pennies with a parrot, what can a Minelab do? So on Wednesday I ordered a Safari. Thanks to father christmas at Joan-Allen my detector arrived on Saturday. Exactly 9 days after I started detecting I was ready to go with a brand new machine, can you guess what happened on day 10? We started in the bottom field on my brand new permission about 9am, for the first half an hour I thought I'd bought a flute and by midday we where wet and ready for a brew! I found a soda can and a penny but detecting was different this time, I had a much better idea of what was going on under ground. I was impressed but wet and my 10 year old son was ready for home. I had just paid a lot of money for a new detector and with it being a new permission, I wanted to nip up to the top field just to get aquatinted with the land. After 10 minutes I found a half penny and was gaining confidence in my flute, sorry Safari. But what note my Safari flute played next was loud, high and close, it said dig!!!